In every office, there are different kinds of leaders. The best leaders are the ones who lead by example, who take full responsibility for their behaviour and their people. When there’s a problem, it belongs to the leader, even if they didn’t make the mistake or cause the problem themselves. They just believe that it’s …
Things That Went Horribly Awry
Some things are beyond our control. Some things are beyond a creator’s control as well. I can sympathize with this, even if the end product ends up poor. For example, I was absolutely in love with a particular series. The start hooked me immediately and I was fully invested. And then something happened to one …
Living In The Past
I know it’s unhip to live in the past, and that all our personal development books tells us to face forward and live in the moment. This is good advice, but it denigrates a key component of the past. Yes, we can only ever live now. Yes, the past is immutable and the future is …
Unexplained Transitions
Am I the only one who gets irritated when stories make major changes to a person’s being and don’t explain it? Like when there’s time jumps and suddenly, a strong fighter never wants to fight or someone who always expressed hope is suddenly a negative Nancy. Or say, when a key character transitions from male …
The Soul
I never really think much about the soul. For some people, it’s a huge deal, but for me, it’s this kind of amorphous, ambiguous thing that doesn’t really mean anything specific while encapsulating a whole bunch of different things. What is it, exactly? Is it an essence of who we are? Is it the thing …
Survival Of The Fittest
Obviously, evolution is a thing. Proven by science, observable in reality, it’s a theory with enough supportable evidence to be considered truth. Ignore any fundamentalist Christians who tell you otherwise. Their entire proof is in hearsay and a book that if they actually read it, they’d realize it makes no sense at all. (Seriously. Question …
Society Based On Pleasure
I know it sounds weird in the era of Trump, but assuming he doesn’t blow us all back to the Stone Age, we may be heading toward a future where entertainment and pleasure are the primary factors. Think about it. Robots are replacing most menial jobs. AI will soon be a thing, and assuming it’s …
Science Over Life?
I’m a big science guy. I loved Bill Nye when I was a kid and always regretted not taking physics in high school. I was told it was awesome, but chose biology instead, much to my chagrin. Turns out, I have little interest in anything oozing or squishy. Blood and guts are only tolerable in …
The Little People
I think Tyler Durden said it best in Fight Club when he talked about how it’s the little people you have to watch out for – the ones who cook your food and clean your house, the ones who watch you while you sleep. It occurs to me that we take a lot of people …
Pure Order
I never really understood the concept of pure order. Utopias set up where everyone is perfectly in their place and happy don’t make sense to me. The whole authoritarian thing where everyone just does what they’re told. Classism, the whole caste system, anything where things are put into very specific boxes and held there as …